The Andersons Files 64-Worker WARN Notice for Montgomery, Alabama Closure

The Andersons Inc. has filed a WARN notice reporting a closure in Montgomery, Alabama, affecting 64 workers. The notice was filed on October 20, 2026, with a planned effective date of December 2, 2026. The filing is an official record, published through the Alabama Department of Commerce, and appears in the Layoff Atlas registry as of October 23, 2026.

It is the largest recent dated WARN filing not previously covered in this series — recent company spotlights have ranged from 55-worker notices up to a 1,279-worker filing, and this 64-worker Montgomery notice is the next largest new filing on the national registry.

The filing, in detail

The registry record lays out the facts as supplied by the source:

• Company: The Andersons Inc.
• Reported location: Montgomery, Alabama
• Workers affected: 64
• Event type: Closure
• Notice / received date: October 20, 2026
• Planned effective date: December 2, 2026
• Source agency: Alabama Department of Commerce
• Filing status: Unavailable

Two fields are listed as unavailable — the published address and ZIP code — which is common in state-published records. County, ZIP, and filing status are not always supplied by the source. The record carries the registry's standing caution: dates and counts are the supplied source's reported values, and readers should check the original document for phased dates, updates, and exceptions.

A 43-day notice period

One detail stands out in the dates. The WARN Act generally requires employers to give 60 days' advance notice of a qualifying plant closure or mass layoff. Here, the gap between the October 20 notice date and the December 2 effective date is 43 days.

That does not by itself mean the filing is out of compliance. The WARN Act's regulations recognize several circumstances in which shorter notice is permitted — including unforeseeable business circumstances and the faltering-company exception — and state filings sometimes reflect phased schedules or updates whose full context lives in the original notice document rather than the summary record. As covered in this series' explainer on WARN Act exceptions, employers invoking a shorter-notice exception must still give as much notice as practicable and explain why the full 60 days could not be given.

For workers, the practical point is the same either way: a WARN notice starts a defined timeline, and the notice period is when unemployment filings, severance discussions, and job-search planning carry the most leverage.

A familiar name in the registry

This is not The Andersons' first appearance in WARN records. The registry's related-filings list shows a 2017 notice for the company in Maumee/Lucas County, Ohio — 326 workers, with a notice date of February 7, 2017, and an effective date of April 9, 2017. That record came through a secondary WARN feed rather than a direct government publication, so its location details are unstructured.

The two filings, nearly a decade apart, illustrate how the registry works: it is a running archive of reported plans, and companies can appear in it more than once across different facilities and years. Neither record is a statement about the company's overall health — each describes one reported event at one location.

Where this filing sits in the national picture

The Andersons' Montgomery closure is one of 699 notices currently in the registry's 90-day window, covering 65,791 reported workers (33 records carry unavailable worker counts). The data was last updated on October 23, 2026.

The heaviest states in the current window are Washington (16,938 workers), California (14,224), Illinois (4,626), Texas (3,652), and Ohio (3,180). By effective week, the calendar runs: October 23 (1,393 workers), October 30 (8,520), November 6 (3,302), November 13 (8,744), November 20 (7,181), and November 27 (5,679). The Andersons' December 2 effective date falls just past the end of that displayed calendar — part of the early-December wave of scheduled events that follows the heavy November weeks.

The usual caveat

As with every figure in this series, these are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. WARN filings describe what an employer told a state agency it expects to happen; actual outcomes can be smaller if plans change, and some layoffs never trigger a filing at all. Worker totals exclude records where the count was unavailable.

Data source: Layoff Atlas